Equal Opportunities for Older Women
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Espace Dialogue et Solidarité (Space for Dialogue and Solidarity)
Communicational details
Address:
10, rue Cambacérès
75008 Paris
France
Contact persons and their known foreign languages:
Mme Martine Lamoine, Project Director
Telephone: 00 33 (0)1 44 56 22 56
Telefax: 00 33 (0)1 49 24 06 27
E-Mail: prevoyance@ocirp.fr
Internet:
About the initiative
Status of the initiative:

The initiative is an initiative aimed at improving equal opportunities for older women through an organisation that pursues objectives which are independent of gender or age.
The initiative has the dicisive support of the following organisation:
OCIRP - Organisme Commun des Institutions de Rente et de Prévoyance (Allgemeiner Bund der Institutionen für Rente und Vorsorge)
Address:
10, rue Cambacérès
75008 Paris
France
Telephone: 00 33 (0)1 44 56 22 56
Telefax: 00 33 (0)1 49 24 06 27
E-Mail: prevoyance@ocirp.fr
Internet:
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Content and framework conditions of the project work
The initiative was founded in: 1997
The initiative was founded because of the following reasons:

A place should be created for widows in our society, a place where they can receive support and voice their concerns, in addition to the facilities provided by our social services in general.
Target group(s): Widows.
Targets: To provide warm-hearted, friendly support to widows, to help them to better overcome their grief, and to support them in their struggle against social isolation.
Details of the work done by the initiative:

Conversation groups, social rehabilitation groups, discussion groups.

Specifically we offer:
- The Tuesday group for women whose husbands have recently died and who are still suffering from the loss;
- The Friday group for widows who have got over the grieving stage: these meetings are more light-hearted and are designed to overcome social isolation.
Areas of work of the initiative:
Social contacts
Provide a shoulder to lean on and a sympathetic ear
Success that the initiative has achieved:

Effective help in overcoming grief.
Problems that the initiative has been faced during its work:

To persuade the woman to participate in a group, once we have established contact with them by telephone.
Participation of the target group concerning the conception, planning and implementation of the initiative's work:

We do not expect any participation of that kind.
Co-operation:
Information:
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Organisational background of the initiative
Staff:

1 salaried employees at the supporting organisation.
14 volunteers/honorary members.
Budget:
Sources of funding:
Funds from the supporting organisation(s)
Publications or information material available on our initiative:

Press articles, brochures, leaflets, posters.
OCIRP guide by Paulette Raymond, published in 1993 : "Après la perte du conjoint, reconstruire l'avenir" (After Losing One's Spouse, Building the Future). Obtainable in French from the OCIRP.
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2001-04-25